Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 17, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola
Mental alchemy is presented as a systematic science of consciousness transformation grounded in the Hermetic tradition, drawing on The Hermetic Code by Ajarn Shaman Shu. The work describes a method for altering consciousness through symbolic and alchemical practices, aiming to achieve personal and spiritual development.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
This article presents a cross-initiatory re-reading of the Bhagavad Gita that engages Advaita Vedanta, Tamil–Dravidian philosophical currents, and African (particularly Yoruba) contemplative traditions through the lens of self-actualization and transpersonal psychology. The project advances a hermeneutic where nondual realization and ethical agency are reframed as a developmental, soteriological continuum of awakening that finds cognate expressions in Dravidian bhakti and siddha traditions, in Ramana Maharshi's self-inquiry, and in Ifa/Yoruba conceptions of the Self and character. The study is explicitly emic, with the lead author team writing from inside these traditions as initiated authorities. It reveals convergences and creative tensions among South Indian and African contemplative frameworks, proposing a Spiritual Reparations Paradigm that re-centers subaltern epistemologies and repairs colonial dislocations.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
The Divine Pymander is an interpretive translation and commentary on the Corpus Hermeticum that argues for a Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) foundation beneath Western esotericism. Written by a cross-initiatory team holding authority in Ifá, Thai Buddhism, Hindu/Dravidian traditions, and Western scholarship, the paper combines lived ritual knowledge with textual-historical analysis. It finds that the Hermetic figure of Nous (divine mind) parallels Kemetic concepts of a creative divinity, that a lineage of mediated transmission through Hellenistic syncretism and Renaissance reception shaped Western esotericism, and that an initiatory perspective alters philological reading by integrating ritual praxis with textual exegesis. The authors propose that comparative initiated scholarship yields fresh angles on Nous, revelation, and theosis across cultures.
Open MIND
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
This article presents a scholarly exposition of the book 'Ganesha: Break the Chain,' proposing a cross-cultural paradigm for breaking generational chains of psychological and ancestral constraint through the figure of Ganesha, Lord of Beginnings and Remover of Obstacles, in conversation with African diaspora understandings of crossroads deities such as Eshu-Elegba. The authors situate the text within Dravidian-Tamil folk religion, especially Pillaiyar worship in Tamil Nadu, and track resonances across Yoruba/Ifa cosmology and Thai-Brahmanical-Buddhist articulations.